Jane Hamilton Quotes
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.
Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.
It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.
It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.
This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.
My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.
She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.
Emma, Emma, Emma, " I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.
I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I didn't feel much need for self-preservation, that somehow there was a distinction between the two.
...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124
Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.
